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"Stefano Bonifazi" <stefboombastic@libero.it> wrote in message
news:43a073aa@newsgroups.borland.com...

>  Given a drive path (example "d:\\" or "e:\\") how can i get the
> CD-DVD drive name (example "Plextor PX 716-A" or
> "Toshiba DVD-ROM SD...")??

You have to query the hardware device directly for that.

If you are using NT/2K/XP, you can use DeviceIoControl() to send an
IOCTL_SCSI_GET_INQUIRY_DATA command to the device.  The return value is a
SCSI_ADAPTER_BUS_INFO structure which then contains a SCSI_INQUIRY_DATA
structure, which will contain the device name.  For example:


http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.win32.programmer.mmedia/msg/399670392db558c2?dmode=source

Alternatively, you can use WMI to query the device.  You can run a query on
the "Win32_CDROMDrive" class to retreive various information about the
available devices.  Or you can use the TWmiStorageInfo component to do the
work for you:

    http://www.online-admin.com/wmiset.html#TWmiStorageInfo


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